Tour de France 2023: Jonas Vingegaard retains title as Jordi Meeus claims surprise win in Paris

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Jonas Vingegaard and his Jumbo-Visma squad  toast his Tour de France triumph   successful  2023 during the last  stageJonas Vingegaard and his Jumbo-Visma team-mates raised a solid during Sunday's processional stage

Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard sealed his 2nd successive Tour de France triumph arsenic Jordi Meeus sprinted to a astonishment triumph connected the last stage.

Meeus, 25, edged retired Jasper Philipsen successful a photograph decorativeness successful Paris to contradict his chap Belgian a repetition of past year's triumph connected the iconic Champs Elysees.

Vingegaard, 26, finished 7 minutes and 29 seconds wide of nearest rival, two-time victor Tadej Pogacar.

Britain's Adam Yates was 3rd overall, 1 spot supra his duplicate member Simon.

Racing successful his archetypal Tour, Bora-Hansgrohe rider Meeus claimed the biggest triumph of his vocation by a rim from Philipsen, racing successful the greenish jersey having won 4 stages of this year's contest.

Meeus said: "It was a ace bully acquisition already truthful acold and to instrumentality the triumph contiguous was an indescribable feeling."

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